JCS: "No Abnormalities in Surveillance System for North Korea in Contact Areas"

Active Generals Suspended from Duty One After Another

Military authorities stated that there are no abnormalities in the frontline North Korea surveillance system despite the emergency martial law situation.

A Joint Chiefs of Staff official said at a regular briefing on the 13th, "The military is currently faithfully performing its original duties, and the readiness posture for the contact area is normal."

The official explained, "There are concerns because there are several places with a deputy command system for martial law commanders during the emergency martial law, but units such as the Capital Defense Command and the Special Warfare Command are units primarily created for counter-terrorism missions, and they are not units that actually fight the enemy in the contact area during wartime." He added, "There is no abnormality in the system that monitors North Korean forces or responds when provocations occur in preparation for actual wartime."

Concerns about the readiness posture against North Korea have arisen as senior military generals have been consecutively excluded from their duties or placed under investigation due to the emergency martial law situation.

The Ministry of National Defense suspended the duties of seven active-duty generals related to martial law, including Army General Park An-su, who served as the martial law commander, as well as Lieutenant Generals Yeo In-hyung, Commander of the Defense Security Command, Lee Jin-woo, Commander of the Capital Defense Command, and Kwak Jong-geun, Commander of the Special Warfare Command, who deployed troops to the National Assembly and the Central Election Commission during martial law.

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